Where is the promised "Permant alliance"?

[Macce]

I wanted to start a multiplayer game where I and a friend would form a permanent alliance from the beginning and share everything including line of sight. Fireaxis promised this would be possible, but I've tried now and it takes forever before we even can start to trade technologyd. Still at 1000 AD, we can't form any alliance whatsoever..

Am I missing somehing?

 

[Zany]

Permanent Alliance comes with Fascism. Locked alliance can only be assigned at the start-up screen. They are identical in features and usages, just P.M. requires Fascism and L.A. you have to start from the beginning.

 

[theatrus]

Yes.

When you setup the game, there is a set of numbers next to the player type (1, 2, 3, etc...)

If you want locked alliances from the getgo, you need to make two people the same team #.

 

[Civ]

so before blaming firaxis read the manual

 

[Raziaar]

Do you have to enable the permanent alliances checkbox before this can go into effect?